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Temporal structure and synchronization in the Tōgaku ensemble of Japanese court music (Gagaku) (2024)
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Kamata, S., & Clayton, M. (2025). Temporal structure and synchronization in the Tōgaku ensemble of Japanese court music (Gagaku). Analytical approaches to world music, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14561020

In this paper we present the first empirical analysis of rhythm, meter, and synchronization to be carried out using a recorded corpus of instrumental gagaku music. We present an account of metrical-formal structure, tempo change, interaction (includi... Read More about Temporal structure and synchronization in the Tōgaku ensemble of Japanese court music (Gagaku).

Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022 (2024)
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Hardwicke, T. E., Thibault, R. T., Clarke, B., Moodie, N., Crüwell, S., Schiavone, S. R., Handcock, S. A., Nghiem, K. A., Mody, F., Eerola, T., & Vazire, S. (2024). Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 7(4), https://doi.org/10.1177/25152459241283477

More than a decade of advocacy and policy reforms have attempted to increase the uptake of transparent research practices in the field of psychology; however, their collective impact is unclear. We estimated the prevalence of transparent research pra... Read More about Prevalence of Transparent Research Practices in Psychology: A Cross-Sectional Study of Empirical Articles Published in 2022.

Identifying Melodic Motifs and Stable Notes from Gestural Information in Indian Vocal Performances (2024)
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Nadkarni, S., Rao, P., & Clayton, M. (2024). Identifying Melodic Motifs and Stable Notes from Gestural Information in Indian Vocal Performances. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 7(1), 246-263. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.211

Manual gesture plays an important role in Indian classical singing, and one of its functions is to support, illustrate or communicate aspects of raga melody. We explore the relationship between hand movements and melodic elements in Indian classical... Read More about Identifying Melodic Motifs and Stable Notes from Gestural Information in Indian Vocal Performances.

Listening to/in the Field: Polyphony in the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes Project (2024)
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Steinberg, P., Baxter, R., Egan, E., Kramvig, B., Lehman, J., Winderen, J., Winterling, S., & Kramvig, B. (in press). Listening to/in the Field: Polyphony in the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes Project. Geohumanities,

This article reflects on the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes project, a transdisciplinary venture of seven natural scientists, social scientists, and artists that sought to explore how a focus on sound could spur development of a new research sensibilit... Read More about Listening to/in the Field: Polyphony in the Exploring Arctic Soundscapes Project.

Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories (2024)
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Jakubowski, K., Lee, E., Bai, E., & Belfi, A. M. (online). Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories. Musicae Scientiae, https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649241288173

Music is increasingly used as a cue for autobiographical memories in psychological research and clinical interventions. Despite the burgeoning body of evidence on the phenomenology of music-evoked autobiographical memories (MEAMs), few previous studi... Read More about Individual differences in music-evoked autobiographical memories.

Effects of left ventrolateral prefrontal stimulation on forming and maintaining deep and shallow episodic traces (2024)
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Peng, N., Wu, W., Della Sala, S., & Hoffman, P. (2024). Effects of left ventrolateral prefrontal stimulation on forming and maintaining deep and shallow episodic traces. Cerebral Cortex, 34(11), Article bhae437. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae437

The levels-of-processing framework, proposing that deep encoding enhances retention, plays a crucial role in episodic memory research. Neuroimaging evidence highlights that increased activity of the left ventrolateral prefrontal cortex during deep en... Read More about Effects of left ventrolateral prefrontal stimulation on forming and maintaining deep and shallow episodic traces.

The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports (2024)
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Fuentes-Sánchez, N., García-Fernández, M., Escrig, M. A., Eerola, T., & Pastor, M. C. (online). The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports. Musicae Scientiae, https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649241286974

Studies in the field of emotions have yielded mixed findings regarding differences between women’s and men’s emotional reactivity. In the majority, emotional scenes, facial expressions, and movies were used as stimuli. However, music has been less fr... Read More about The role of gender in emotional reactions elicited by music: Autonomic reactivity, facial expression, and self-reports.

Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music (2024)
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Eerola, T., Kirts, C., & Saarikallio, S. (online). Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music. Psychology of Music, https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241279763

We present a novel framework for music and emotion research that addresses emotional experiences with music as functional episodes. This framework, called the Episode Model, places the situation and the function of the music for the individual at the... Read More about Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music.

Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings (2024)
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Jakubowski, K., Margulis, E. H., & Taruffi, L. (2024). Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 42(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.42.1.3

Music listening can evoke a range of extra-musical thoughts, from colors and smells to autobiographical memories and fictional stories. We investigated music-evoked thoughts as an overarching category, to examine how the music’s genre and emotional e... Read More about Music-Evoked Thoughts: Genre and Emotional Expression of Music Impact Concurrent Imaginings.

Alice Dalí augmented reality: Evaluating a cultural outdoors game for intergenerational play (2024)
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Haahr, M., Rudenko, S., & Jakubowski, K. (2025). Alice Dalí augmented reality: Evaluating a cultural outdoors game for intergenerational play. Entertainment Computing, 52, Article 100865. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.entcom.2024.100865

Serious Games have been shown to have many uses, such as for learning and cultural engagement. Furthermore, research has shown that some types of game experiences can have significant social benefits, such as a study by Wang, Taylor and Sun, which sh... Read More about Alice Dalí augmented reality: Evaluating a cultural outdoors game for intergenerational play.

Play it again, but more sadly: Influence of timbre, mode, and musical experience in melody processing. (2024)
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Armitage, J., Eerola, T., & Halpern, A. R. (online). Play it again, but more sadly: Influence of timbre, mode, and musical experience in melody processing. Memory and Cognition, https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01614-8

The emotional properties of music are influenced by a host of factors, such as timbre, mode, harmony, and tempo. In this paper, we consider how two of these factors, mode (major vs. minor) and timbre interact to influence ratings of perceived valence... Read More about Play it again, but more sadly: Influence of timbre, mode, and musical experience in melody processing..

Functional integration and segregation during semantic cognition: Evidence across age groups (2024)
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Wu, W., & Hoffman, P. (2024). Functional integration and segregation during semantic cognition: Evidence across age groups. Cortex, 178, 157-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2024.06.015

Semantic cognition is underpinned by ventral anterior temporal lobe (vATL) which encodes knowledge representations and inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which controls activation of knowledge based on the needs of the current context. This core semantic... Read More about Functional integration and segregation during semantic cognition: Evidence across age groups.

Verbal semantic expertise is associated with reduced functional connectivity between left and right anterior temporal lobes (2024)
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Wu, W., & Hoffman, P. (2024). Verbal semantic expertise is associated with reduced functional connectivity between left and right anterior temporal lobes. Cerebral Cortex, 34(6), Article bhae256. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhae256

The left and right anterior temporal lobes (ATLs) encode semantic representations. They show graded hemispheric specialization in function, with the left ATL contributing preferentially to verbal semantic processing. We investigated the cognitive cor... Read More about Verbal semantic expertise is associated with reduced functional connectivity between left and right anterior temporal lobes.

Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings (2024)
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Clayton, M., Li, J., Clarke, A., & Weinzierl, M. (online). Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings. Journal of New Music Research, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2024.2331788

Using pose estimation with video recordings, we apply an action recognition machine learning algorithm to demonstrate the use of the movement information to classify singers and the ragas (melodic modes) they perform. Movement information is derived... Read More about Hindustani raga and singer classification using 2D and 3D pose estimation from video recordings.

Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony (2024)
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Kim, S. (2024). Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony. Music Analysis, 43(1), 36-76. https://doi.org/10.1111/musa.12224

The timeworn view that Bruckner's sonata form is a motionless architecture devoid of dynamic processes has long contributed his isolation from the mainstream post-Beethovenian tradition. Taking inspiration from August Halm's (1914) and Ernst Kurth's... Read More about Sonata Form as Temporal Process: the First Movement of Bruckner's Sixth symphony.

Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries (2024)
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Jacoby, N., Polak, R., Grahn, J. A., Cameron, D. J., Lee, K. M., Godoy, R., …McDermott, J. H. (2024). Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 846–877. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01800-9

Music is present in every known society but varies from place to place. What, if anything, is universal to music cognition? We measured a signature of mental representations of rhythm in 39 participant groups in 15 countries, spanning urban societies... Read More about Commonality and variation in mental representations of music revealed by a cross-cultural comparison of rhythm priors in 15 countries.

Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords (2024)
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Lahdelma, I., & Eerola, T. (2024). Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords. Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 41(3), 161-175. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2024.41.3.161

This study tested whether chords that do not differ in acoustic roughness but that have distinct affective connotations are strong enough to prime negative and positive associations measurable with an affective priming method. We tested whether music... Read More about Valenced Priming with Acquired Affective Concepts in Music: Automatic Reactions to Common Tonal Chords.

Music, Memory, and Imagination (2024)
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Margulis, E. H., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). Music, Memory, and Imagination. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 33(2), 108-113. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231217229

This article argues that the capacity of music to reliably cue both autobiographical memories and fictional imaginings can be leveraged to better understand the relationship and interdependence between memory and imagination more generally. The multi... Read More about Music, Memory, and Imagination.

A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study (2024)
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Steliou, C., & Jakubowski, K. (2024). A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study. Music & Science, 7, https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225733

Despite more than a century of research on music memorization and practicing strategies, there is a lack of comprehensive evidence on how instrumental music teachers teach memorization to children and adolescents in one-to-one lessons. The present qu... Read More about A Survey into Piano Teachers’ Perceptions of Music Memorization in One-to-one Piano Lessons: A Preliminary Study.